Right guard Chris Kuper is preparing to sign his one-year, $2.512 million tender today, essentially taking the three-year starter off the market.

Kuper, a fifth-round pick in the 2006 draft, becomes the first of the Broncos’ five restricted free agents to sign his tender and will be the second to join the team’s offseason conditioning program. Quarterback Kyle Orton starting conditioning with the team on Friday.

Kuper, who hails from Anchorage, Alaska and the University of North Dakota, was given a first-round tender that is unusually high for an interior offensive lineman. Had he received a second-round tender, he may well have received a lucrative offer sheet from another club.

Still, $2.512 million is a nice raise from the $535,000 salary Kuper received last year.

ESPN's John Clayton expects the Broncos to wait until the NFL Draft to trade Brandon Marshall.

The Seahawks are going to have the leverage here. They're the only team seriously interested thus far, and they know the Broncos don't want to go into the season with a disgruntled Marshall on their roster. Clayton posits that Seattle could wait through the first round to see if the Broncos will trade Marshall for less than a first-round pick/RotoWorld
Source: ESPN.com

Green said he was happy to be playing for McDaniels again, especially after watching McDaniels on the Broncos sideline when Denver
and New England played each other last October. Denver won that game in overtime.

"The last thing I remember was him giving the fist pumps after the game, and I saw that and saw the energy and saw the players playing for him. Everyone wants to play for a coach like that," Green said. "For me, I was in New England for all that time, and I was ready to move on, period. Just watching Josh on the sideline, I was like, I want to feel that too."